有机/高分子光电信息功能材料的设计、制备和器件性能
方向1：高性能高密度高分子信息存储材料
1. Yu Chen*, Bin Zhang,Gang Liu, Xiaodong Zhuang, En-Tang Kang*, Graphene and its Derivatives: Switching ON and OFF(Critical Review)，Chem. Soc. Rev. 41: 4688–4707 (2012) 影响因子40.18
2. Yu Chen* et al., Polymer Memristor for
Information Storage and Neuromorphic Applications (Invited review), Materials Horizons 1(5):463-550(2014) 影响因子13.18
3. Bin Zhang,..., Yu Chen*, Redox-gated polymer memristive processing-memory unit, Nature Commun. 10:736(pages 1-11) (2019) 影响因子12.35
4.Bin
Zhang, Yu Chen*, Koon-Gee Neoh, En-Tang Kang *,
Organic Electronic Memory Devices, in Electrical
Memory Materials and Devices,
Wen-Chang Chen(Ed.), The Royal Society of Chemistry, 1-53 (2015)
5.Gan Liu, Yu Chen* et al., Recent advances in resistive switching materials and devices: From memories to memristors, Engineered Science 4:4-43(2018)
方向2：有机/高分子非线性光学与激光防护材料
1. Yu Chen*, M. Hanack, Y. Araki, O. Ito, Axially modified gallium phthalocyanines and naphthalocyanines for optical limiting （Tutorial review）, Chem. Soc. Rev. 34(6): 517-529(2005) 影响因子 40.18
2. Yu
Chen*, Ting Bai, Ningning Dong, Fei Fan, Saifeng Zhang, Xiaodong Zhuang, Jie Sun, Bin Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jun Wang* ,Werner J. Blau , Graphene and its derivatives for laser protection (Invited review), Prog.
Mater. Sci. 84:118-157 (2016) 影响因子 23.75
3. Yu Chen*, Jun Wang, Nan He, Werner J. Blau, Miao Feng, Hongbing Zhan, Bin Zhang, Jinhui Zhu, Lijuan Niu, Peipei Li, Nanomaterials for optical limiting (Invited chapter), in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, American Scientific Publishers, Stevenson Ranch, California, USA, Vol.18, pp45-74 (2011)
4. Yu Chen*, M. E. EI-Khouly, J. J. Doyle, Y. Lin, Y. Liu, E. Notaras, W. J. Blau, S. M. O’Flaherty, Phthalocyanines and related compounds: nonlinear optical response and photoinduced electron transfer process (Invited chapter),in Handbook of Organic Electronics and Photonics, American Scientific Publishers, Stevenson Ranch, California, USA, Volume 2: 151-181(2008)
5. Jun Wang, Yu Chen, Werner J. Blau, Carbon Nanotubes and nanotube composites for nonlinear optical devices (Invited review), J.Mater. Chem. 19:7425-7443 (2009) IF6.62
方向3：高分子杂化纳米太阳能电池材料（2013已停止）
1. Yongxi Li, Minchao Gu, Zhe Pan, Bin Zhang, Xutong Yang, Junwei Gu*, Yu Chen*, Indacenodithiophene: A promising building block for high performance
polymer solar cells (Review), J.Mater. Chem. A 5: 10798 – 10814 (2017) 影响因子9.931
2. Yongxi Li, Kai Yao, Hin-Lap Yip, Fei-Zhi Ding, Yun-Xiang Xu, Xiaosong Li, Yu Chen*, Alex K.-Y. Jen*, Eleven-membered fused-ring low band-gap polymer with enhanced charge carrier mobility and photovoltaic performance, Adv. Funct. Mater. 24(23): 3631-3638(2014) 影响因子 13.325
方向4：高分子蓝光电致发光材料（2012已停止）
林楹，顾慧丽，陈彧* ，潘喆，陈军能, 基于芴的蓝色电致发光材料研究进展（长篇评论文章）, 功能高分子学报 2012, 25(1):79-99,108
方向5：有机/高分子热电功能材料（2016停止）
1.高杰，苗蕾，张斌，陈彧*, 柔性复合热电材料及器件的研究进展（长篇评论文章),功能高分子学报 2017,30(2):142-167
2.Jie Gao,..., Yu Chen* et al., A novel glass-fiber-aided cold-press method for fabrication of n-type Ag2Te nanowires thermoelectric film on flexible copy-paper substrate，J. Mater. Chem. A 5, 24740-24748 (2017) 影响因子9.931